Should we clap, Jeb?
Via The Blaze:
In an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal, former Florida Governor Jeb Bush makes the case that the incoming Republican administration should set the agenda by calling for a constitutional convention to establish term limits, a balanced budget amendment and restrictions on the Commerce Clause.
Bush asserts that the 2016 election was largely a protest vote over the growth and power of the central government and that Republicans have a rare chance to shift some of that power back to the states.
Bush wrote:
But here’s something we shouldn’t forget: This election was more about voting against something than voting for something. Americans voted against the “establishment,” against the country’s changing culture, against a dysfunctional Washington, against the privileged, against Hillary Clinton—and, yes, against Donald Trump.
For the GOP to build on its victory, Republicans have to recognize that we’re still in a divided country—which incidentally gave Mrs. Clinton roughly two million more votes than Mr. Trump. Republicans need to do more than oppose things. We have to be for a few big ideas and show that we can put them into action.
Bush goes on to outline a number of somewhat specific ideas for fusing “the party to a modern conservative movement that speaks to 21st-century problems and produces 21st-century solutions.” Notably, he mentions allowing innovation in emerging technologies to develop unfettered by regulation, and the wisdom in re-embracing a foreign policy of “peace through strength.”